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Post by dem bones on May 18, 2009 7:55:31 GMT
Bruce Pennington: We had a thread for him on the old board but sadly it's little more than a nightmare of broken linksnow - maybe i'll salvage some comment from it later. Anyway, plenty of opportunity for fans of Clark Ashton Smith, Brian Aldiss, Harry Harrison et al to pitch in. Peter Haining - Dr. Caligari’s Black Book ( NEL, 1969) Peter Haining - Beyond The Curtain of the Dark (NEL, 1972) Peter Haining - The Freak Show (Corgi, 1971) Peter Haining - Legends For the Dark (NEL, 1968) August Derleth (ed.) - H. P. Lovecraft & Others: Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Vol. 2 (Panther, 1975) Fritz Leiber - Night Monsters (Panther, 1975) Alexis Lykiard (ed.) - The Horror Horn: The Best Horror Stories Of E. F. Benson (Panther, 1974) Arthur Machen - Tales Of Horror And The Supernatural: Vol 2 (Panther, 1975) |
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Post by dem bones on May 18, 2009 22:18:14 GMT
It's weird but, for someone who judges a book by its cover, i never really gave much thought to the artists behind them. So many are uncredited, i just figured it would be impossible to expose the guilty men, so that's something else i'm grateful to Paperback Fanatic Groovy Age and various Vault fiends for 'cause i'd never have known of any of these guys otherwise. Anyway, as threatened, some salvage from Vault Mk. 1. The original Bruce Pennington thread is here, but i've taken it from halfway due to repetition of covers and aforementioned dead links. Also some other items exhumed from the seediest corners of the old place. ****************************************************** The Monker wrote: I don't know what the etiquette is when it comes to linking but this is a 'good'n' and it probably made up the cover of some book. www.aumania.it/fa/pennington/023.jpgBaron VordenbergThat's a superb example of Pennington's sweeping visionary style Monker - it was the cover for the Clark Ashton Smith anthology 'The Abominations of Yondo' on Panther. One Bruce Pennington cover I remember from the 70s was the one to Frank Herbert's 'Dune Messiah'. I think we all enjoy the oft-lurid sensationalist cover-art from that period but there were definitely some artists such as Bruce Pennington (and for example Jan Parker who illustrated Peter Hainings book on witchcraft and black magic) who really knew how to compose strikingly weird imagery and hook into your imagination. Pennington's outre dream-landscapes, strange colour sense, eerie lighting effects and daemonic figures show this genre at at an aesthetic high-water mark. Today's Photoshop bland-out cover-designs can't compete with the likes of BP's images from the 70s. Dr TerrorPennington's covers are great. I think he also did at least one of the covers for the Lin Carter edited series: Flashing Swords. CalentureThe amount of high quality work he turned out is astonishing. I wish I could find my SF Monthly magazines, published back in the 70's by NEL. One of them included a lengthy article on Pennington. Apparently he got those rich colours by using the usual commercial watercolour, then brushing inks over it as a glaze. Cover by Bruce Pennington First published 1967; first NEL 1970 Hollywood's sexiest star...a real Hercules of a hero...and a genuine eleventh century background for an epic historical film...it was a Hollywood producer's dream come true.
Only trouble is with the extras. How do you control a lot of real wild eleventh century Vikings? Well...you could try escaping back to the twentieth century - and return to the eleventh when the row's over...
It's all made possible by Professor Hewett's miraculous technicolor time machine - a fantastic invention programmed to transport an entire movie crew to the century of their choice. And there are some hilariously crazy happenings on location that you won't want to miss...I was thinking of posting this one to the PHWOAR! thread, but decided better not as I might want to do a further post on it. demonikI can honestly say that if I had a copy of this I would never progress past the cover. Nor can I understand how anybody else could possibly wish to. |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 19, 2009 0:02:49 GMT
These are probably on the site somewhere, but they're great. Some are Bruce Pennington, but I forget which ones.  Out of Space & Time 2, 1974 The Last Hieroglyph Sadastor The Death of Ilalotha The Return of the Sorcerer The Testament of Athammaus The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqqan Ubbo-Sathla The Monster of the Prophesy The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis From the Crypts of Memery The Shadows  Out of Space & Time 1, 1974 The End of the Story A rendezvous in Averoigne A Night in Malneant The City of the Singing Flame The Uncharted Isle The Second Interment The Chain of Aforgomon The Dark Eidolon The Double Shadow  Lost Worlds 1, 1974 The Empire of the Necromancers The Isle of the Torturers Necromancy in Naat Xeethra The Holiness of Azedarac The Beast of Averoigne The Letter From Mohaun Los The Light From Beyond The Hunters from Beyond The Treader of the Dust  Lost Worlds 2, 1974 The Last Incantation A Voyage to Sfanomoe The Death of Malygris The Tale of Satampra Zeiros The Door to Saturn The Seven Geases The Coming of the White Worm The Maze of Maal Dweb The Flower Woman The Demon of the Flower The Plutonium Drug The Planet of the Dead The Gorgon  The Abominations of Yondo, 1974 The Nameless Offspring The Witchcraft of Ulua The Devotee of Evil The Epiphany of Death A Vintage From Atlantis The Abominations of Yondo The White Sybil The Ice-Demon The Voyage of King Euvoran The Master of the Crabs The Enchantress of Sylaire The Dweller in the Gulf The Dark Age The Third Episode of Vathek Chinoiserie The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony The Passing of Aphrodite |
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Post by dem bones on May 19, 2009 8:14:19 GMT
Using Justin's The Prophesies of Bruce Pennington from the classic Paperback Fanatic #4 (the Robert Lory special) as my guide, the Penningtons are The Abominations of Yondo, Lost Worlds and Lost Worlds 2 (also Genus Loci if you have that?). Not sure who was responsible for the Out Of Space And Time pair, but i prefer them above the others!
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Post by justin on May 19, 2009 18:49:15 GMT
Bob Habberfield delivered the Out of Space and Time covers. He was responsible for many of the wild and symbol-laden covers for Moorcock at Mayflower.
I asked him for an interview but he politely declined.
For the longest time I though the swirl on the green cover was an addition made by the previous owner on the rather tatty copy I owned. It was only when I stumbled across another copy I realised it was in the actual art. The only example of the type of motion lines more common to comics ever used on a paperback cover?
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on May 19, 2009 18:50:54 GMT
Is this the one you're looking for, dem? : Genuius Loci (Panther 1974, Originally Neville Spearman 1972) Genius Loci
The Willow Landscape
The Ninth Skeleton
The Phantoms Of The Fire
The Eternal World
Vulthoom
A Star-Change
The Primal City
The Disinterment Of Venus
The Colossus Of Ylourgne
The Satyr
The Garden of Adompha
The Charnel God
The Black Abbot Of Puthuum
The Weaver In The Vault |
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Post by dem bones on May 20, 2009 0:46:41 GMT
That is indeed the one, Dave, and Justin, thanks for putting a name to the seriously gifted Out of Space and Time artist.
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Post by severance on May 20, 2009 13:47:30 GMT
I much prefer the lil critter on this second edition of 'Yondo' to the rather strange first edition...  |
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Post by marksamuels on May 20, 2009 21:54:55 GMT
I contend that the one I own is the best of the bunch! (The Abominations of Yondo has to be one of the 8-)est story titles ever thought up!) It's the Neville Spearman British 1st edition hardback 1972. Mark S. |
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